Distinguished Professor Joins 9/11 Skeptics
Written by Greg Szymanski (16 December 2005)
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Distinguished University of Minnesota Philosophy
Professor Joins 9/11 Fight, Saying the Truth Must
Be Uncovered
James H.Fetzer, PhD., has publicly thrown his hat
in the ring to support other professors seriously
questioning and casting doubt on the official 9/11 story.
16 Dec 2005
By Greg Szymanski
A University of Minnesota philosophy professor, like
an unexpected Christmas snowstorm, has dropped
a large bundle of holiday cheer on the 9/11 truth
movement, as this week he has thrown his hat into
the ring with others seeking the truth.
"I stand with Steve Jones, professor of physics at
BYU and David Ray Griffin, professor emeritus of
Theology at Claremont and other students and
scholars of 9/11, who believe that extraordinary
times require extraordinary measures," said
James H. Fetzer, PhD., a distinguished McNight
University professor at the University of Minnesota
at Duluth.
Professor Fetzer now becomes another in a long list
of academicians, including Jones and Griffin, who
have cast severe doubt on the credibility of the
government's official 9/11 story, calling for a
renewed debate and independent investigation
to get at the truth.
Fetzer has published more than 100 articles and
reviews as well as 20 books in the philosophy of
science and on the theoretical foundations of
computer science, artificial intelligence, and
cognitive science.
According to his biography on this web page,
his publications have been divided by area,
including special vitae for computer science,
artificial intelligence, cognitive science, evolution
and cognition, and his applied philosophical
research on the death of JFK.
Fetzer, who just entered the public 9/11 arena
this week, agreed to appear next Monday on
Greg Szymanski's nationwide radio show, the
Investigative Journal, on the Republic Broadcasting
Network at www.rbnlive.com to explain why he has
joined in the 9/11 truth fight.
As expected, a philosophy professor digs deep into
the heart of the matter, dissecting words and
meanings Before talking about specific evidence,
Fetzer provides this illuminating discussion on
"conspiracy theories," relating to 9/11 in a recent
paper he wrote called "Thinking About Conspiracy
Theories: 9/11 and JFK."
"One fascinating aspect of 9/11 is that the official
story involves collaboration between some nineteen
persons in order to bring about illegal ends and thus
obviously qualifies as a conspiracy theory," wrote
Fetzer.
"When critics of the government offer an alternative
account that implicates key figures of the government
in 9/11, that obviously qualifies as a 'conspiracy theory',
too. But what matters now is that we are confronted by
alternative accounts of what happened on 9/11, both of
which qualify as "conspiracy theories". It is therefore
no longer rational to dismiss one of them as a
"conspiracy theory" in favor of the other. The question
becomes, which of two 'conspiracy theories' is more
defensible?"
After setting the record straight on conspiracy theories,
Fetzer in his paper delves into an analysis of the 9/11
evidence, saying that the controlled demolition of the
WTC must be taken seriously.
"Most Americans may not realize that no steel-structure
high-rise building has ever collapsed from fire in the
history of civil engineering, either before or after 9/11,"
wrote Fetzer. "If we assume that those fires have
occurred in a wide variety of buildings under a
broad range of conditions, that evidence suggests
that these buildings do not have a propensity to
collapsed as an effect of fire. That makes an
alternative explanation, especially the use of
powerful explosives in a controlled demolition, a
hypothesis that must be taken seriously."
Besides the WTC, Fetzer also provides a detailed
analysis of the Pentagon crash, questioning as
many before him, "What Really Happened?"
In his paper, he states:
"If a small fighter jet rather than a Boeing 757 had
hit the Pentagon, that would tend to explain the
small impact point, the lack of massive external debris,
and a hole in the inner ring of the building, which the
fragile nose of a Boeing 757 could not have created.
"It would also suggest why parts of a plane were carried
off by servicemen, since they might have made the
identification of the aircraft by type apparent and
falsified the official account. A small fighter also
accommodates the report from Danielle O'Brien,
an air traffic controller, who said of the aircraft that
hit, "Its speed, maneuverability, the way that it turned,
we all thought in the radar room-all of us experienced
air traffic controllers-that it was a military plane."
In concluding his academic look at 9/11, Fetzer boldly
asks Americans to Endeavour to seek the truth in every
possible way, suggesting the "government-dominated"
mass media has presented one of the biggest obstacles.
"Which raises the question, who had the power to make
these things happen and to cover it up," asks Fetzer.
"Once the evidence has been sorted out and appropriately
appraised, the answer is no longer very difficult to find.
Like the assassination of JFK, the events of 9/11 required
involvement at the highest levels of the American
government.
"This conclusion, moreover, receives confirmation from
the conduct of our highest elected officials, who took
extraordinary steps to prevent any formal investigation
of 9/11 and, when it was forced upon them by tremendous
political pressure, especially from the survivors of victims
of these crimes, they did whatever they could to subvert
them. There are good reasons for viewing The 9/11
Commission Report (2004) as the historical successor
to and functional equivalent of The Warren Report (1964).
"I therefore believe that those of us who care about the
truth and the restoration of responsible government in
the United States have an obligation to make use of
every possible media venue from talk radio and the
internet to newspapers and television whenever
possible. The American people can act wisely only
when they know the truth.
"So, while the truth is said to "make us free", the truth
only matters when the American people are able to
discover what is true. Obstacles here that are posed
by the government-dominated mass media, including
the use of stooge "reporters" and of prepackaged
"news releases", only make matters that much more
difficult. As John Dean asks in Worse than Watergate
(2004), if there has ever been an administration more
prone to deceiving the American people in our history,
which one could it be?"
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